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Barra Beach Club Reviews

Servidao da Prainha, 122, Barra da Lagoa, Florianopolis, Brazil

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95%Overall Rating

From 148 ratings
  • 94%Character
  • 95%Security
  • 94%Location
  • 97%Staff
  • 96%Atmosphere
  • 94%Cleanliness

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100%

The hostel is great and the staff are really helpful and friendly.

  • Novice Nomad
  • 06 May 2013
  • Anonymous
  • Scotland
  • Couple, 31-40
  • (3 reviews)


97%

The best hostel I've stayed at in my 5 months in South America!! Amazing staff, breakfast, views, cleanliness. Couldn't ask for more :)

  • Novice Nomad
  • 05 May 2013
  • Anonymous
  • Australia
  • Female, 25-30
  • (1 review)


100%

Easily one of the best hostels I've stayed in in all of Latin America. Beautiful setting above an almost private beach, close to a huge long beach and easy to access other beaches. Really friendly and helpful staff. Great included breakfast. Free use of surf boards. Free caiparinha every night. What else could you want!?


97%

Really great place to stay ,especially for a beach break .not that bad for getting to and from the town.food amazing .had an awesome time for 10 days

  • Novice Nomad
  • 02 May 2013
  • Anonymous
  • England
  • Male, 18-24
  • (3 reviews)


100%

Just amazing. The staff is wonderful.

  • Novice Nomad
  • 29 Apr 2013
  • Anonymous
  • France
  • Male, 25-30
  • (1 review)


97%

great location right on the beach but its not Florianopolis, Santa Catarina Island instead, 2 bus rides from the rodoviaria. Rooms were spotless and comfortable, in the privates anyways. The dinner in the evening was great as was the company there. Would highly recommend. Make sure to take a day to visit Logoainha De Leste at the south of the island.

  • Avid Traveller
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • Anonymous
  • Ireland
  • Male, 25-30
  • (20 reviews)


100%

Amazing place to stay overall. Had an absolute ball there! However, one of the laptops I used to put photos onto my USB ruined my memory card and therefor cost me an extra US$60 to replace it. I know this happened to someone else while I was staying there so be careful!

  • Novice Nomad
  • 22 Apr 2013
  • Anonymous
  • Australia
  • Female, 25-30
  • (7 reviews)


100%

It's a great hostel, the view from the balcony is really amazing and the staff is genuinely friendly and helpful. I also liked the fact that it is so close to the beach you can actually hear the sound of the waves from your bed... The area is quite safe too. I really enjoyed my time there and would defo come back!


97%

Nice hostel in an awesome location. Their dinners are good too!


97%

You can definitely understand why it has good reviews. The dinners every night were a great value, delicious and a fun way to get to know the other people in the hostel. One slight downside is that the hostel is on a pocket beach and not on the actual Barra de lagoa beach, as they may have you to believe. But that's just being picky!

Owner Comment (Show)
Hello Catherine, thanks for the nice review. We always appreciate when you let us know how you enjoyed your time here! 95% of guests don`t bother to write a review. Also, if you mean by `Pocket beach` that its a small semi-private beach, this is true.We clearly and proudly state in the Info section that we are located in front of a semi-private beach and are a 3 minute walk to the main beach of Barra da lagoa. Its an unusual and priviledged location that everyone usually sees as an `upside` but we are all happy that everything else was enjoyable! Take care, Jim

100%

An absolutely great hostel. Staff were very helpful and friendly. The (optional, paid) dinner each night was always delicious and very reasonably priced. The views from the hostel are great -- especially from the bar/deck area. Location might not suit those looking to head into Florianopolis proper regularly, but was great for us, given we just wanted a beach break somewhere relaxing.

  • Avid Traveller
  • 06 Apr 2013
  • Anonymous
  • Australia
  • Male, 25-30
  • (13 reviews)


100%

such a great place!

  • Novice Nomad
  • 04 Apr 2013
  • Anonymous
  • Germany
  • Female, 31-40
  • (1 review)


93%

Great vibe, lovely staff. The hostel has free wifi, filtered water and free surfboards. The atmosphere is superb.


100%

This has to be, without a doubt, the best hostel I have ever stayed at in Brazil. The beautiful location, amazingly warm and attentive staff, great options that they offered of activities as well as the nightly dinners made by the Italian chef were all factors that made this stay one of my most pleasurable. The hostel is not very big in terms of capacity, so I never felt overwhelmed by a large number of guests. Automatic vacation mode as soon as you see the view from the Tower Bar :)

  • Novice Nomad
  • 28 Mar 2013
  • Anonymous
  • Barbados
  • Male, 18-24
  • (3 reviews)


100%

It was a great location with great proximity to a secluded beach. Ali was very helpful. I would highly recommend this place. We stayed in the 2 bedroom suite and it had air conditioning along with a ceiling fan. We couldn't hear anybody outside. We used the surfboards and snorkeling gear, although the water was not conducive to snorkeling.

  • Novice Nomad
  • 28 Mar 2013
  • Anonymous
  • USA
  • Couple, 25-30
  • (1 review)


60%

- Very old towels (mine had a hole..) - Ventilator in house 4 / room 3 doesn't work - R$10,00 deposit not retorned because check-out was after 5pm, even the reception working 24 hours.


100%

Had an amazing time at this hostel, Great location, great facilities with an amzing set up offering meals of a night time where everyone eats and drinks together and the food was amazing. The staff here are the frendliest and most fun i have come across. Loads of trips to sign up for either boating trips on the lakes or concert/night club trips which the staff get involved and enjoying the experience with you. Location right on a secluded small cove beach & 5 mins Walk to the main beach.

  • Novice Nomad
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • Anonymous
  • England
  • Male, 25-30
  • (1 review)


100%

Thanks for the stay! I had an amazing time

  • Novice Nomad
  • 24 Mar 2013
  • Anonymous
  • Spain
  • Mixed Group, 18-24
  • (1 review)


90%

Beautiful and really nice staff, good structure, delicious food and an amazing view of the beach! My friends and I had a great time there. Highly recommended!


93%

It's an excellent hostel! There is a growing trend of hosteling for hostels that are extremely well organized, well worked out systems, run like efficient businesses by experience business people - this is one of them. I am more old school looking for the owner run, personal contact, smaller more location authentic style hostel, but Barra Beach Club is very good at what they do.

  • Novice Nomad
  • 23 Mar 2013
  • Anonymous
  • South Africa
  • Male, 25-30
  • (1 review)

Owner Comment (Show)
Hi Pierre! From a guy that barely graduated High School in N.Y., who then at 19 years of age moved to,worked, but mostly surfed in Hawaii for 18 years, who then in 1994 visited Brazil and bought this land in Barra, and over the last 19 years built the infrastructure that would eventually become(4years ago) the Barra Beach Club...I thank you so much for the compliment!! But I AM old school(in an organized way). THATS why you liked it here! Thanks again and take care, Jim

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